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European Financial Surveillance Union Impersonated in Scam E-mail

Scam e-mails posing as communication sent from "European Financial Surveillance Union," name of an organization, are circulating online, while telling recipients that certain amount of money is about to be transferred to them, published softpedia.com in news on May 28, 2013.

 

Viewing a caption, "European Financial Surveillance Union Payment Verdict," recipients of the fake e-mail learn that the Union is happy to contact them. For, based on past as well as current records about the person's fund/payment dispatch, he has been getting the same from banks as also making more attempts that understandably he's been handling since long, however, failed to succeed, the e-mail observes.

 

Hence, the Union is informing that the user's fund is now with it, which will instantly deliver to him in cash within his country, so he must show his readiness for welcoming the Union's agent, authorized for handing over the said funds to him in person, the fake e-mail states.

 

Now, if anybody replies to this scam electronic mail, he'll get informed that an aggregate of $6.2m is due for him, which can be sent over instantly.

 

But, the e-mails of course aren't any kind of genuine financial entity's message, while they actually represent one advanced fee fraud devised for duping Internauts into transmitting personal information and cash to online scammers.

 

Incidentally, the tactic chiefly targets individuals who've earlier been victimized with advance fee frauds. Usually, persons victimized with such a fraud have positively answered repeated as well as continually more shocking solicitations for advance money-payments. These persons likely become more and more desperate to be able to retrieve the money they've already transferred as well as will keep on dispatching more money despite being warned they're trapped within a scam.

 

The fraudsters can distribute innumerable identical messages similar to the aforementioned one; therefore, it's pretty much possible that they'll get a reply from at least some Internauts who've been earlier defrauded.

 

Consequently, for reducing the possibilities of becoming a victim of such Internet-based frauds followed with having one's precious money lost to criminals, it's best advised that users just erase the e-mails wholly, experts indicate.

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